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181 " Grief was a place, Sara understood, where a person went alone. "
― Justin Cronin , The Passage (The Passage, #1)
182 " It’s love that enslaves us. "
― Justin Cronin , The City of Mirrors (The Passage, #3)
183 " If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what’s worth saving about it. "
― Justin Cronin
184 " To have a child was to receive the gift of true immortality—not time stopped, as it had stopped in Amy, but time continuing and everlasting. "
― Justin Cronin , The Twelve (The Passage, #2)
185 " what had happened, he said he wanted to go looking for him, make him live up to his responsibilities. But what Jeanette knew and didn’t say was that Bill Reynolds was married, a married man; "
186 " I should think it a wonderful thing to be missed, the way that I miss him. "
187 " he had a family in Lincoln, all the way clean over in Nebraska. He’d even showed her the pictures in his wallet of his kids, two little boys in baseball uniforms, "
188 " But I did what I thought was right in the moment. In the end, that’s all a man has to measure his life, and it’s plenty. "
189 " We made war on the planet, and the planet fought back. "
190 " The world was real and you were in it, a brief part but still a part, and if you were lucky, and maybe even if you weren’t, the things you’d done for love would be remembered. "
191 " Our place had just four rooms and voices had a way of carrying, you couldn't sneeze in one room without somebody in another saying bless you. "
192 " That was when you got to actually liking people, which was a problem. Things fell apart fast after that. "
193 " All was a ruin, yet the world did not seem to know or care. In "
194 " Maybe that was what getting older taught you, when you looked in the mirror and saw the passage of time in your face, when you looked at your sleeping daughter and saw the girl you once were and would never be again. The world was real and you were in it, a brief part but still a part, and if you were lucky, and maybe even if you weren’t, the things you’d done for love would be remembered. "
195 " Wolgast leaned back in his chair and realized how exhausted he was. It always came upon him like this, like the sudden unclenching of a fist. "
196 " It's not that I don't believe you," Peter managed. "I'm sorry. It's just that...it's only a story.""Perhaps." She shrugged. "And perheps someday someone will say those very words about you, Peter. What do you say to that? "
197 " She would be a girl; Lila had seen her on the ultrasound. A baby girl. Tiny hands and tiny feet and a tiny heart and lungs, floating in the warm broth of her body. "
198 " He carried her through the smoking ruins, and she saw that he was weeping. Those are God's own tears, Lacey thought, yearning to reach out and touch them. It had never occurred to her that God would cry, but of course that was wrong. God would be crying all the time. He would cry and cry and never stop. "
199 " The field was carpeted with the most lustrous show of wildflowers she had ever seen—flowers by the hundreds, the thousands, the millions. Purple irises. White lilies. Pink daisies. Yellow buttercups and red columbines and many others she knew no names for. A breeze had arisen; the sun had broken through the clouds. She shrugged off her pack and walked slowly forward. It was as if she were wading into a sea of pure color. The tips of her fingers brushed the petals of the flowers as she passed. They seemed to bow their heads in salutation, welcoming her into their embrace. In a trance of beauty, Amy moved among them. Corridors of golden sunshine fell over the field; far away, across the sea, a new age had begun.Here she would make her garden. She would make her garden, and wait. "
200 " But he’d done far braver things in his life—all his life—not the least of which was warming another man’s child against his skin while outside the snow poured down, and loving that child so fiercely she became his own. Your daddy. "
― Justin Cronin , The Summer Guest